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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: How Many (x) Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
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Date: 14 Dec 88 00:59:39 GMT
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From article <148@usl-pc.usl.edu>, by jpdres10@usl-pc.usl.edu (Green Eric Lee):
" In message <44972@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, engelson@cs.yale.edu (Sean Philip Engelson) says:
" >In article <568@redsox.UUCP>, campbell@redsox (Larry Campbell) writes:
" >>The Jews do not have a monopoly on persecution.  They are in the unique
" >>English settlers did much worse to the American Indians.  But it took longer
" >>(300 years), finished less recently (1880 vs. 1945), and guess what -- we
"...
" >True.  But, another difference being that the Amerinds were not
" >_exterminated_, they were just persecuted.  That is to say, the intent
" 
" Really? Remember the Nez Perce? "The only good Injun is a dead Injun"?
" Broken treaties and deliberate incitements and massacres of women and
" children in Amerind villages? The complete extermination of the East
" Coast Amerinds, via deliberate spreading of diseases and alcohol and
" outright slaughter?

There were very bad times.  It's not quite as bad as all that,
though.  My grandparents, of the Osage and Huron, did ok.  They
decided to assimilate.  I suppose many families in the East
must have, too.  Perhaps you're talking about the cultures
being "exterminated" rather than the individuals.

I've been reading rec.humor.funny since the beginning of the
Great Controversy, and feel rather left out.  Got Osage jokes,
anyone?
		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu